Council pays fatcat £900 a day

Council pays fatcat £900 a day

A civil servant is getting £900 a day to work as temp for a cash-strapped council

David Loseby is paid £4,500 a week to handle multi- million pound contracts for services such as parking enforcement.[>

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But just a month after he was taken on, Tory-run Westminster City Hall in London axed 300 jobs in a major cost-cutting drive.[>

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Mr Loseby is paid more than the Prime Minister.[>

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Stephen Higgins, union branch officer at Westminster Unison, said: “It’s absolutely ridiculous. That’s particularly the case when the council is about to make 125 people redundant on top of the 180 they got rid of last year and there’s a guy walking around with £900 a day’s worth of taxpayers’ money. It’s a real kick in the teeth.”[>

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Furious resident Eileen Crawford, 67, said: “It’s disgusting. The council should be ashamed of itself. I don’t know how they can justify paying that kind of money out.”[>

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Westminster’s Labour councillors were last night demanding an urgent investigation into the huge salary.[>